If it’s just a game, Then we’ll lift weights just the same

Seriously, I don’t know where Mimi and Gil are going with this ruse; there’s so much sexual innuendo to be had I don’t even know where to start. Gil might get Mimi to cut her hair into a mullet, dye it dark, then hit the weight room with Kenzie and him. Dim the lights and cue the ‘Mats:

Given that this is a G-rated comic strip my best guess is that this will lead to A Very Special Gil Thorp in which Kenzie learns “You’re not Mimi; you’re not Max Bacon’s arm candy; you’re Kenzie. You be the best Kenzie you can be.”

Tune in Monday when Dr. Pearl puts the Thorps on paid administrative leave for the rest of the school year, the Lady Mudlarks miss the playdowns, and teenchy grabs a copy of Trouble Boys.

Yeah, panel three is all kinds of messed up alright. Has Gil been spotting Kenzie like this all season or is this some sort of set-up-to-seem-serendipitous intervention. Only, to the extent that Gil and/or Mimi put any forethought into this, it is completely belied by Gil’s stunningly awful execution. Let’s hope Monday’s strip features Kenzie fracturing Gil’s jaw.

We all know there’s an after school special lesson coming. This misdirection of creepiness is just hard to swallow. Especially since the way this evolved, it’s hard not to read this as if Gil just snuck up behind Kenzie and blindsided her with the Ward Cleaver routine. God forbid he make himself available to randomly spot Lady Mudlarks in the weight room.

It’s nice that the weight room has a nice, big picture window so Groundskeeper Willie can keep an eye on the students’ workouts.